Despite the lefty tone of the new Nora Ephron movie “Julie & Julia,” Julia Child was a bit of conservative when it comes to eating, arguing that food, in fact, is not your enemy. Radical!
“She despised activists who terrified people about the safety of their food,” says someone who knew her. Moreover, she specifically hated — guess who? — Meryl Streep, for her role in stirring up a phony “60 Minutes” controversy over Alar in apples in the 1980s. (Don Hewitt himself later regretted having run the piece.) For this, Streep has denounced Child as a tool of big corporations. The whole story is here.

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Streep says: “she really resisted making a connection between the high fat diet of a heavily laden cordon bleu-influenced cuisine and cholesterol levels”

And of course Child was right, as has now become increasingly evident. Streep should read Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.

In fact, it is big corporations who backed and still back the anti-cholesterol studies, b/c they profit from the widespread use of the cheap vegetable oils and shortenings that have replaced butter and other saturated fats. So it’s actually Streep who was the tool of the corporations.

She loves french fries, was a spy and agent provocateur, and when she dropped a bird during a the recording of her show, instead of editing it out (like anyone else would have) and pretending like it never happened, she picked it up and said “The guests will never know”.

This is why actors should stick to acting: with extremely rare exceptions they don’t know anything else, and seem to be incapable of learning anything that doesn’t conform to their odd notions of the world around them.

I still say we should strip all the Socialist Hollywood idiots’ money, credit, and assets from them and use it all to pay down the deficit. then we should strip them down to their underwear and drop them on a beach somewhere in Cuba…

I was going to spend my money to watch the movie but now because of Streep’s big mouth I’ve decided to spend my money elsewhere. When will actors learn to keep their views to themselves and do their jobs.

McDonalds french fries are/were legendary. Julia praised the fries when they were fried in beef fat. She didn’t prefer the current fries that use vegetable oil that nutritional terrorists sued McDonalds to use. Unfortunately, the fries are healthier using beef fat.